Having crossed the border from Costa Rica rather late in the day, we decided to spend our first night in Nicaragua in the market town of Rivas before heading to Isla Ometepe the next morning. Situated in the south of the country, Rivas is nothing special but equally...

There are several, justifiably popular colonial towns in Central America, with Antigua in Guatemala and Granada in Nicaragua topping the bill but there are also a number of lesser known towns that see fewer tourists and are often great places to break a journey from A...

Hiking, wading and floating through Nicaragua’s Somoto Canyon Somoto Canyon National Monument, to give it its full title, is a huge gorge located in the northwest corner of Nicaragua. Reportedly one of oldest rock formations in Central America, the canyon is only 55km...

The surrounding countryside near Estelí in the northwest of Nicaragua is perfect for growing cigar-producing tobacco. Indeed, a number of Cuban cigar makers made the city their home in the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution and there are several award winning...

It’s not in my nature to use words like awesome or epic but looking back at our 2014, less-enthusiastic words just don’t do our travelling year justice. Hammerfest, Norway June 2014 Twenty-six countries across three continents, it’s certainly going down as the...

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